Take a Girl Like You???!!! WTF? It's noxious. The male lead spends the entire book trying to get the female lead into bed, and finally succeeds because she's too drunk to prevent him, in fact barely conscious by that stage: something that even his male friends think is pretty poor behaviour. And she stays with him.
I wouldn't describe either Daniel Deronda or The Great Gatsby as a romance in the Mills and Boon-y sense.
I've 'read' 16 of these (poss the only person to have read the book of The African Queen?), except not entirely clear if film or book is meant in several instances, so 17 if you count the movie of Dr Zhivago.
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Only if projectile vomiting is romantic...
Date: 2007-08-10 02:25 pm (UTC)It's noxious. The male lead spends the entire book trying to get the female lead into bed, and finally succeeds because she's too drunk to prevent him, in fact barely conscious by that stage: something that even his male friends think is pretty poor behaviour. And she stays with him.
I wouldn't describe either Daniel Deronda or The Great Gatsby as a romance in the Mills and Boon-y sense.
I've 'read' 16 of these (poss the only person to have read the book of The African Queen?), except not entirely clear if film or book is meant in several instances, so 17 if you count the movie of Dr Zhivago.